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Bolaji Badejo

Bolaji Badejo, who played the xenomorph in the original Alien movie, died of sickle cell anemia on this date 25 years ago.

When I Die and Go to Heaven ...

I want to sit between these two people: Arnaldo Momigliano and Betty Radice. Douglas

Hanako Muraoka

NHK is currently airing a million-part morning drama about the life of Hanako Muraoka, the Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables, entitled Hanako To An (Hanako and Anne). That's Hanako in the middle. Picture source. NHK site.

Jesse Winchester

Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding.

Obit.

Alex Colville

Alex Colville died Tuesday at age 92. He'll likely hold the title of top Maritime painter for the next century or so. One of the running jokes in Evangeline Brandt is that there is a Colville painting in every room in Sackville NB. These are Brandt or Zinck cartoons that reference Colville: "Seminar", "Homage à Trois",  "Waiting Room", "Kant and the Elements", "Notar".

Elizabeth McClung

Elizabeth McClung, author of Zed, and occasional commenter here at Plenty of Nothing, died the other day. Her blog Screw Bronze! records her life as a fencer, boxer, Japanophile, lesbian, Goth, medical critic and wheelchair driver. Heather's review of Zed was one of the first posts on Plenty of Nothing.

[Screw Bronze! can be read at the Wayback Machine. Search on http://elizabethmcclung.blogspot.ca/.]

Max Ferguson and Allan McFee

Hosting As It Happens, 1977.

Chris Metallic

The man standing on the left, wearing #34, Christopher Metallic, has been a missing person since Sunday, November 25th, 2012. He was last seen in Sackville NB, where he is a third-year student at Mount Allison University. He is described as aboriginal, six feet tall, 180 pounds, with short dark hair and glasses. He is from Listuguj, Quebec, just opposite Campbellton NB. At this point he could be anywhere in North America. If you see him phone the RCMP at 1-888-506-7267.

Valeri Vasiliev

Soviet defenceman Valeri Vassiliev, who played in the 1972 Canada-Russia series, has died at age 62.

Bouquet (M. Purcell)